Year 4
Design Realisation James O’Leary, Dirk Krolikowski
The Bartlett School of Architecture 2016
Thank you to our DR Lecturers: Daniel Bosia (AKT II), Damian Eley (ARUP Structures), Jan Guell (RSH+P), Xavier de Kastelier (Foster + Partners), Sara Klomps (Zaha Hadid Architects), Dirk Krolikowski (The Bartlett, UCL), Tim Lucas (Price & Myers / The Bartlett, UCL), Ho-Yin Ng (AL_A), James O’Leary (The Bartlett, UCL), Joanna Pencakowski (RSH+P), Mario Pirwitz (JSWD Cologne), Hareth Pochee (Max Fordham), Simon Ruppert (Bollinger + Grohmann), James Thonger (ARUP Structures) We are grateful to our DR Practice Tutors: Rhys Cannon (Gruff Ltd.) Simon Dickens (Youmeheshe), Vidal Fernandez (RSH+P), Pedro Gil (Studio Gil Architects), Lee Halligan & James Daykin (Blee Halligan Architects), James Hampton (Periscope), Tom Holberton (Rick Mather Architects), Dirk Krolikowski (The Bartlett, UCL), Justin Nicholls (Fathom Architects), Ralph Parker (Price & Myers), Aleksandrina Rizova, Stefan Rutzinger & Kristina Schinegger (SOMA Architecture), Michael Tite (Michael Tite Architecture Ltd), Anna Woodeson (LTS Architects) Thanks to all the Structural Consultants that have worked with individual students to realise their projects, and to Max Fordham, Environmental Consultants to all design units
Image: Unit 17 Ghost Chapel Project, Connemara, Ireland 292
The Design Realisation (DR) course provides the opportunity for all Year 4 Masters students to consider how buildings are designed, constructed and delivered. Students are asked to reflect upon their relationship to technology, the environment and the profession, via an iterative critical examination of the major building design project taught within the context of individual design units in Year 4. They are simultaneously supported by an extensive lecture series, seminars and cross-unit crits. The course forms a bridge between the worlds of academia and practice, engaging with many internationally renowned design practices and consultancies. A dedicated practice-based architect, structural engineer and environmental engineer support each design unit, working individually with students to develop their work throughout the programme. This year we have seen excellent work in DR, making it exceptionally difficult to select the winner of the DR Innovation award, kindly sponsored by Saint-Gobain. The prize is shared between five students, whose response to DR has been genuinely innovative. This year’s Saint-Gobain Innovation Award goes to: Jonathan Davies, Unit 21; Joshua Honeysett, Unit 16; Matthew Lucraft, Unit 24; Agostino Nickl, Unit 11 and Amani Radeef, Unit 16. Jonathan Davies’ work outlines a new form of urbanism along the Mediterranean. It is conceptually rich whilst drilling down to incredible levels of detail, right down to the legislative. Joshua Honeysett’s proposal emerges from keen contextual observations in Panama. He creates an architecture that reforms the way the redundant ship technology of the Panama locks is used, creating a space suspended between technological adventure and fiction. Matthew Lucraft’s work is conceptually driven, with a thorough understanding of the local context of Dagenham and cooperative housing. An elegant system-driven solution is proposed that modifies Japanese construction principles to construct a new English vernacular architecture. Agostino Nickl’s project is a detailed deconstruction of the American suburban housing model, where standards are questioned and new possibilities arise. This delightfully witty project is executed with skill and precision, down to the level of 1:1 details and prototypes. Amani Radeef’s work is a thorough investigation into the tectonics of a new visitor centre near Panama City, amplified by the use of digital prototyping. The project investigates several areas of innovative technology in the arena of marine and submersible architectures and propels them into compelling new architectural configurations. As well as these projects, we must make a special mention of the work of Unit 17 this year. Working as a group, they have designed and constructed a small chapel in Connemara on the west coast of Ireland. Through this process they have raised project funding, secured partners, talked to local media, worked through various iterations and built their proposal without compromise. Well done to all for an outstanding effort that has stretched the parameters of the possible in DR.